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"Witches" Weren't Burned During The Middle Ages. That Actually Happened in the Renaissance Period.

Published: June 6, 2023, 8:20 a.m.

At the height of the witch burning craze, thousands people, largely women, were falsely accused of witchcraft. Many of them were burned, hanged, and executed, typically under religious pretense. But this phenomena largely didn\u2019t happen in the Middle...